Humble Indie Bundle moving towards $1 million, still being pirated

I think there are too many different kinds of people to just label all pirates as thieves.

If you think about it why does a thief steal? Well, they might not want to pay for it because they don't have enough money or maybe they don't think it is worth the amount? So how does that make sense towards a game that you can input $0.01?

I think this shows that there is another factor rather than people stealing because of money. And I don't believe that all 25% of those pirates have a fetish for pirating therefore they pirate.

Maybe it is the delivery system? Maybe they don't want to enter any personal information online? Or maybe they are in a country like china where torrenting is a big means of distributing the majority of software in that country? Who knows, but something just seems off about that 25% that makes you wonder what you really need to re-evaluate instead of just blaming pirates as being thieves.

Freetards. Nothing else.

If they aren't even willing to pay a single f...ing cent, I can't see how anyone halfway decent would be willing to respect them.

BTW: if they really don't have a PayPal,... account, they could go to someone else and give them the money in cash to download it.

Wait, they don't have any kind of authentication for people to reach the download links? You don't need DRM to do that...

They've changed the page so that you have to put something. Putting zero will bring up a picture, and no link is given. Guess they got wise to everyone trying to download for free.

Personally, I'd buy the World of Goo alone. I've played it before and it was a lot of fun!!

Before I get any trolls responding, I have no credit card, don't use Paypal, and if I really wanted the Goo game, I'd find it at a local store and pay cash.

Ok, i donated $10 and have not received an email confirmation. Where is the download link for the games?

All (almost all) of this software is going open source or in the process of going open source. I didn't know you could pirate open source software.

Looks like this whole thing was just an effort to squeeze what money was possible out of software before releasing it for free. Patience wins again!

I haven't played it myself, but World of Goo sells for $15 on WiiWare and is one of the most popular downloads. I assume the computer-based versions are identical.

they have now raised 1miliion!

the sense of entitlement here towards free things, legal or otherwise, totally ignoring the aspects of charity, innovation, and resistance against coldhearted jerks and pirates both really bothers me

just 'cause something can be free doesn't mean it should be

grow a soul!

So I get why they don't have DRM ... ya know, they just don't agree with it. But not having some kind of secure download link is pretty stupid.

I threw a buck onto the pile and have yet to download the games. Honestly the only one I feel is worth anything is World of Goo, but I'll probably keep forgetting to download it. So they got their monies worth I suppose.